Sylvia Poorta
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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 30, 1961
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Gender: Female
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Our Own
Overview: In our society, where self-fulfillment seems to have become an obligation, identical twin sisters enter a retreat. Encouraged by their spiritual coach, Vera and Josefien are searching for their own selves. When Vera finds out that she wants to free herself from her sister, their relationship and identity as twins are put to the test.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2016-06-27
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The Aviatrix of Kazbek
Overview: On the flat island of Texel, Marie is a girl who has a vivid imagination who dreams about mountains. She feels oppressed by the strict religious island community and its narrow-minded way of life. Being the only girl in a big and poor family during wartime, she doesn't have much of a choice than to marry Paul, the beachcomber’s son. From the moment a regiment of Georgians are stationed on the island, Marie’s life changes and flourishes. With their film, music, and especially with their inventive, unusual survival strategies and entirely different life style, this isolated group of outsiders and in particular the young soldier Goga opens a new way for Marie. Through them, she realizes all her dreams without fear.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-04-08
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Happily Ever After
Overview: A collection of classic fairy tales such as Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood, with a nod and a wink to contemporary times. The film offers characters such as the 'ugly sisters' Paris and Hilton, an updated relationship between Red Riding Hood and the big bad wolf, homosexuality and corny humor. Also musical scenes in which the characters sing the songs of current pop artists as well as many popular Dutch hits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-10-14
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In the Heart
Overview: Masha is in an overwhelming relationship with Luuk, father of two and separated. Nothing seems to stand in their way until Luuk turns incurably ill, leaving Masha without status.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2015-01-15
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RO Theater: Snorro, de gemaskerde held
Overview: Stage registration of the theatre program by Theatre Rotterdam. Snorro, the masked avenger, takes on the dastardly regime of El Commandante. Meanwhile, a bounty hunter has arrived in the village of Burrito, where Don Jose lives; waiting on a marriage he doesn't want and coping with identity issues.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2018-01-01
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Zadelpijn
Overview: Seven socio-economically successful women around the age of fifty come together in France for their annual multi-day bike ride.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2007-04-15
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Broken Red
Overview: What happens if you take the law into your own hands, start correcting the legal system on your own initiative? Hans Croiset, André van den Heuvel, Bram van der Vlugt and Kitty Courbois in their roles of aged resistance heroes do not think this is such a bad idea; in fact, it is what they already did during World War II. Back then, they formed a sworn resistance gang. The occasion for their renewed fighting spirit is the brutal robbery and murder of Marjan, one of the members of their former group. Past and present start blending. In a controlled tempo, alert to detail and acting, a story unravels that focuses on Hans Croiset in the role of Simon, a retired teacher of Dutch. He makes contact with the underworld, meeting the Slavic Goran, who starts feeling sympathy for the old man. Eventually, fate lies in Simon's hands.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Boy Ecury
Overview: In 1944, resistance hero Boy Ecury was executed by a German firing squad at the age of 22. In this historical drama, Dundun Ecury, a business man from Aruba, travels to the Netherlands in 1947 to search for his son’s body. Here, he relives the courageous Boy’s tragic history. When Dundun meets Boy’s suspected murderer, he is confronted with a painful revelation and himself. Inspired by Ted Schouten’s book Boy, een Antilliaanse jongen in het Nederlands verzet.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2003-03-10
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The Finnster
Overview: Finn (15) is an uncomplicated schoolboy until one day, coming home from school, he catches his father Roelof in his moms dress. The man Finn has looked up to his whole life, wants to become a woman. Finn, just discovering his own sexuality, is troubled by this new discovery. A struggle with feelings of shame, love and loyalty follows. Luckily Lizzie, his newfound friend, is there to help him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2010-09-26
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Gruesome School Trip
Overview: The sensitive Onnoval is the best student in his class and he loves Liselore, who was the girlfriend of the bully Gino. His teacher Meester de Vriend believes he is a promising writer and poet. Gino picks on Onnoval all the time, but Onnoval does not fight against Gino because he believes he is a werewolf. When the successful writer of horror tales Nol van Paulo comes for a lecture in his class, he advises Onnonval to never write a story for the evil Ferluci. However, Onnoval is humiliated by Gino and very upset and jealous he writes a story about a class excursion in a horror bus to a horror park, where Gino is killed by a vampire, and gives his story to Ferluci. Later he regrets, but Nol van Paulo tells him that the only way to fix the situation would be stealing his note book and rewriting the conclusion.
Genres: Adventure Family Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2005-12-07
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Zus & Zo
Overview: In this Oscar-nominated comedy, three wacky sisters try to save their inheritance from their supposedly gay brother, who suddenly appears with a fiancé in tow. If he gets married, their father's will stipulates that he gets the family hotel in Portugal. So the sisters put aside their personal differences and set out to stop the wedding at all costs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2002-05-08
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Hybris
Overview: Two women hide a dead man in an autumnal forest. He wakes up again the next day. In a flashback it becomes clear what happened and why. Now that everything is different, the man struggles with his karma and the hereafter.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-09-30
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A Thousand Kisses
Overview: Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2006-03-09
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Skin
Overview: In the late Seventies, a Dutch teenager named Frankie, who is the son of a holocaust survivor, lives in a working class area in Holland. Frankie’s mother is taken to hospital in a terminal condition, causing a bigger rift between him and his father. This leads to Frankie becoming the interest of the local Nazi skinhead group.
Genres: Drama History Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-03-13
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Sweet Rabbit
Overview: Jeanet, an insecure middle-aged woman, discovers one day that rabbit ears are growing out of her head. Shocked and confused, she rushes to the doctor to get rid of her ailment. But the doctor turns out to be a poor listener. Jeanets relatives seem to have attention for her. Jeanet thinks she is on her own until she knocks on her husband's door.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-10-27
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